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...lesson that government ends up cornered and powerless if it yields even tacitly to criminal interests. He also underestimated the risks of having on his electoral lists unknown candidates who would later be placed under investigation for conspiring with the Mafia. All this while the center-right (led by Silvio Berlusconi) watched its ally, the governor of Sicily, celebrate as a victory a recent court decision that determined he was not a mafioso, even while finding that he had done favors for a noted Mob boss. In this febrile environment, Berlusconi is again seeking the Prime Minister's office, while...
...Italian politics, turning everything on its head is the preferred method for keeping everything standing in place. Just 21 months after Romano Prodi knocked Silvio Berlusconi out of the Prime Minister's office, Italy is once again heading toward elections. And who do polls say will be the next Prime Minister? Silvio Berlusconi, of course...
...Opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi refused to budge from his call for immediate elections, convinced that a quick vote will return him to the Prime Minister's office for a third time. Though not all his allies are as convinced of the wisdom of a quick vote, they don't want to damage their own future by going against him. Critics argue that even if the billionaire leader wins, under the current electoral law, he will lack the necessary leverage to get much done, just as Prodi's government...
...rewrite the electoral law (with a vote to follow several months later). "There is still a small margin for success," the would-be Prime Minister announced. "I see it. And for this we must see it through." But that won't happen without at least the tacit acquiescence of Silvio Berlusconi. Perhaps Marini's most important meeting Friday was with neither a Senator nor Member of Parliament. It was with Gianni Letta, Berlusconi's right-hand...
...President Franco Marini, pounding his gavel as the bubbly spilled out of the bottles onto the carpet. "This isn't a tavern here!" The final tally after nearly an hour: 161-156 to bring down the coalition, 20 months after Prodi eked out a victory over his perennial nemesis Silvio Berlusconi, the controversial TV mogul-turned-politico. It was all good theater, but yet another sign that Italy's political system is in serious disrepair...